View of lumber yard in Meeker, Rio Blanco County, Colorado, shows men inside a fenced yard with stacks of milled lumber. Log barracks, wood frame houses and a line of covered wagons are in the background. Timber was cut in the Buford area east of...

View of vacant dilapidated buildings on Main Street, Nevadaville, Gilpin County, Colorado, includes the Odd Fellow's Building with milled storefront pilasters, Redman's Lodge and the Bon-Ton Saloon with arched windows.

View from on top of a stack of lumber over the Mauer Lumber Company, Gunnison, Colorado, includes Henry Stark and Herman Mauer beside a Steven Sabent Six truck and stacks of milled lumber with rock weights on top. Western State College's "W" shows...

View of the El Tovar Hotel, in Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. Shows a wing of the hotel with shingled mansard roofs pierced by dormers. The building has porches with jigsawn balusters, the end porch has a gazebo attached to the entrance and...

View from on top of a stack of lumber over the Mauer Lumber Company, Gunnison, Colorado, includes Henry Stark and Herman Mauer beside a Steven Sabent Six truck and stacks of milled lumber with rock weights on top. Western State College's "W" shows...

Men and children pose on boardwalk in Montezuma, Summit County, Colorado. Behind them, a gable-roofed, one-story store has pilasters and dentils. A false-fronted frame building adjacent is of raw, milled planks, and a two-story clapboard structure...

View of the El Tovar Hotel, in Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. The first floor is sheathed with log slab siding complete with finely-honed corner notching that gives the appearance of log construction. The upper stories have rough...

Three miners stand near a burro that is loaded with wood beams possibly in Las Animas County, Colorado. The beams are milled wood and some are shaped and notched. The men wear work clothes. Some of the miners may be Hispanic or Italian. A dog...

View of the facade of the Don Carlos Hotel (formerly the Salazar Store) at 359 Main Street in San Luis (Costilla County), Colorado. The two-story stuccoed adobe structure has vigas protruding from the first and second story. Stepped parapets are...

There are no plans or drawings describing the construction techniques used on the barn so the exact process is unclear. Restoration has provided a glimpse into how the barn may have been built. The barn rested directly on the ground with no...

Denver and Rio Grande Western locomotive 483 (2-8-2), with a push snowplow and a consist of gondola cars, vents smoke as it departs the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company Monarch Limestone Quarry in Chaffee County, Colorado. Snow covers the ground;...

A pack train loaded with milled lumber gathers in front of John Donald Stables, Ouray, Ouray County, Colorado. Sign on top of the livery reads: "The Freighter Packer, John Donald, All Parts The San Juans." Business next door has a painted sign:...

Looking north over Leadville, Colorado are mine tailings and a large pile of sawdust in the wash area in the foreground. Lumber mills with stacks of timber and milled lumber, sheds, barns, lean-tos, log cabins, tents, false fronts, and some...

Transcript of a document originally written by Maria Davies McGrath in 1934. This document contains transcripts of all three volumes, arranged alphabetically by pioneers last name. Within each entry is a brief biography of the individual (s) who...